“The police couldn’t believe how real it looked. They said it was the best fake they’d ever seen.”

He told The Mirror: “I got a call from a lady, she was in tears saying there was a foot in the road.

“I went round there and it looked really realistic.

“There was loads of traffic queuing down the road, because nobody wanted to drive past it in case they damaged it.

“The police came and at first they approached it very slowly. But as they got closer they realised it was fake.

"They couldn’t believe how real it looked. They said it was the best fake they’d ever seen."

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Writing on Facebook, one driver said: “I had to drive around it two times to actually realise what it was!

"It was scary Just thinking of it being a real foot! Thank goodness another lady stopped too and the police patrol was only around the corner.”

GMP confirmed officers were called to the scene at about 11.50am on Tuesday after receiving reports of a "possible human foot" in the road, but closer examination established it was fake.